When a ruthless street gang kidnaps his daughter, newly elected Metro City Mayor Mike Haggar grabs some help to dish out furious vigilante justice in the arcade classic Final Fight. Go it alone or bring a friend for 2 player co-op across six intense stages populated by an army of Mad Gear gang members out to stop you by any means. Master combos and special grapples, wield melee weapons like pipes or swords discovered on the street, smash through crates and restaurant furniture—nothing is off limits in your all out assault to defeat Mad Gear. Rescue allies strapped to dynamite along the way and build an arsenal combining knives, hammers, and nun chucks for maximum damage. From washed out subways, seedy nightclubs, factories and beyond, experience the definitive side scrolling beat ‘em up that set the bar for arcade brawlers in Final Fight. Are you a bad enough mayor-elect to rescue Jessica and clean up Metro City? Insert your quarter and get ready to rumble.

@Quantum_P1

The CPU has apparently escaped its sandbox and is now making other peoples channels more difficult for me as well. How this could have happened, everything was up to date.....

In the home console scene, Final Fight was never really done justice. I grew up on Streets of Rage, Double Dragon and TMHT as my fave beat em ups. Let me tell you something gamer gang: Final Fight is one of the best brawlers ever made and stands the test of time.

VERSION Must be the Arcade version. The SNES port, or Sega CD are not good enough However in recent years the arcade version has been released on many modern consoles and in many retro collections such as Beat Em Up Bundle or Capcom Arcade Stadium. These releases ARE allowed, but their settings must be set correctly:

SETTINGS Difficulty: Normal Difficulty scaling: Normal Lives: 2 Extra life: 100k then every 200k

The above should all be default except for extra life. In MAME you can usually see these settings by pressing tab key and going to dip switches

What are the rules?
Progress: Level Completion. There are 6 levels!
Credit limit: Only 3 credits allowed per run, and each run you must use all 3 of the characters. So 1 credit per character, you cannot use the same character twice per run
Tiebreaker: Time > Deaths

1st) Quantum_P1 - Progress: Stage 6 - Time: 00:37:52 - Deaths: 6
2nd) Marcman_59 - Progress: Stage 5 - Time: 03:13:14 - Deaths: 106
3rd) ReturnOfOctobot - Progress: Stage 5 - Time: 03:25:14 - Deaths: 114
4th) Fusha - Progress: Stage 3 - Time: 01:00:20 - Deaths: ∞
5th) Lovenfloofen - Progress: Stage 3 - Time: 01:14:07 - Deaths: ∞
6th) TomTheWizzard - Progress: Stage 3 - Time: 01:32:43 - Deaths: 147
7th) Tater84 - Progress: Stage 3 - Time: 01:39:05 - Deaths: 102
8th) FullCup - Progress: Stage 2 - Time: 00:17:40 - Deaths: 56
9th) IrishChamp - Progress: Stage 2 - Time: 05:00:00 - Deaths: ∞

@Fusha

Screams of rage as competitors helplessly fall victim to brazen riggery aside, round 15 was a relatively calm one and went mostly as expected. Marcman and Octobot are doing their usual thing of constantly being at or near the top within a single position of each other, and Q meets everyone's expectations by easily running away with the round, solidifying his third league position, and I think he just might run away with it.

As for the rest of us plebeians, places 4 and onward are separated by a very thin margin of who managed to outrig the Sodom riggery first; places 4 and 7 are less than forty minutes apart.

In other news, some of the council members have cleverly used a loophole in the Wheel of Exasperated Torture Act and delayed their Final Fight submission until later. But have they considered that, in doing so, they might have allowed their direct competitors to gain more points than they otherwise would have? Deccyf, who is now below me in the league table, could not be reached for comment. But the main and most important piece of news this week is of course that Tom's back! Yay, Tom's back, yay, Tom's back!